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One vinyl copy of Midlake’s For The Sake Of Bethel Woods

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“Dangle devils ina bottle/And push them from the

Pogue’s gallery

Shane MacGowan talks us through his eye-opening new collection of sketches, drawings and handwritten lyrics

Right-hand man in black

Loney Hutchins used to find songs for Johnny Cash. Now his own outlaw country compositions are finally getting heard

Que sera, Sarah!

Ex-Heavenly janglers Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey on keeping the Sarah Records spirit alive

A QUICK ONE

JANTO DJASSSI A magnificent band in their own

Treasure islands

The Ano Nobo Quartet embody the unique creole sound of Cape Verde – via Havana and East Berlin!

Jeremy Ivey

The Midwest farmer’s daughter’s husband steps into the spotlight

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Black water side

Sounds of the New Weird Albion

They become our songs

AN AUDIENCE WITH COWBOY JUNKIES

ALDOUS HARDING Warm Chris 4AD

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

GETTING WARMER

HOW TO BUY

Q&A

Aldous Harding “I feel like I’m being shaken by the shoulders by a police officer!”

MIDLAKE For The Sake Of Bethel Woods

BELLA UNION 7/10

Q&A

Eric Pulido “It was a freeing experience to just focus on playing together

A to Z

This month…

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC 7/10

Q&A

Ben Gibbard on the breadth of Yoko’s output

AMERICANA

Album of the month

THE WEATHER STATION

How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars FAT POSSUM 10/10

Q&A

Tamara Lindeman on jazz and the perfect title

REVELATIONS

MYD’s Pete Wareham and Kusha Gaya MELT YOURSELF

ANDY BELL

Flicker SONIC CATHEDRAL 8/10

Q&A

Andy Bell: “I had this big catalogue of unreleased music”

BINKER & MOSES

Feeding The Machine GEARBOX 8/10

Q&A

Binker & Moses on ridiculous demands

REVELATIONS

TANGERINE DREAM Keeping the dream alive T he

DUNCAN MARQUISS

Wires Turned Sideways In Time BASIN ROCK 9/10

Q&A

“I’ve always been a big fan of drone music,” says Duncan Marquiss

SON HOUSE Forever On My Mind

EASY EYE SOUND

BLUES BROTHERS

HOW TO BUY

Q&A

Black Key and Forever On My Mind producer Dan Auerbach: “House played his sorrowful music to uplift himself”

THE CORAL

The Coral RUN ON/MODERN SKY 9/10

Q&A

James Skelly: “We just smoked so much weed”

A to Z

This month…

TINARIWEN

The Radio Tisdas Sessions/ Amassakoul (reissues, 2001, 2004) WEDGE 7/10, 8/10

Q&A

Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni: “It felt like a bridge between our desert and the world”

REDISCOVERED

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

Coleman in 1959: trickster or genius? BURT GOLDBLATT

COMING NEXT MONTH...

T hings are getting busy already for the

Farewell Little Fireball

One of the most distinctive voices in pop music fell silent last month -a combination of street toughness and tenderness, a trademark vibrato and raw, unschooled energy. First, Stephen Troussé pays tribute to RONNIE SPECTOR, then – in an unpublished archive interview – Ronnie herself holds forth on her peerless run of 45s, hanging with The Beatles, the Boss and the New York punks and more. Finally, Nedra Talley-Ross, the last surviving Ronette, celebrates the life of her bandmate and cousin: “She was my breath.”

“She was heard”

Ronette NEDRA TALLEY-ROSS on a lifetime well lived with her cousin, Ronnie

“All those records were good to me…”

IN 2016, Uncut interviewed Ronnie Spector for our

ESSENTIAL RONNIE

THE RONETTES “BE MY BABY” [A-SIDE; 1963] It

COSMIC STRUT

A virtuoso visionary, JOHN McLAUGHLIN has steered his music into some very heavy places. He gave lessons to Jimmy Page, helped Miles Davis go electric, communed with Alice Coltrane and pioneered a monumental new sound with his own Mahavishnu Orchestra. But what lies behind his tireless quest for transcendence? “I wanted to make music that takes you into the stratosphere,” he tells John Lewis

A BUYER’S GUIDE TO JOHN McLAUGHLIN

JOHN McLAUGHLIN EXTRAPOLATION (POLYDOR, 1969) Days before McLaughlin

SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES

From valiant outsiders to rock’n’roll heroes, FONTAINES D.C. have learned to be true to themselves. But how will a move away from Dublin, their home city, impact on their long-held camaraderie? “We’re there in the corner, not really fitting in,” they tell Laura Barton

DEER LIFE

Track by track through Skinty Fia

TV PERSONALITY

Forty-fifi ve years on, Marquee Moon remains an unassailable classic. But what of TELEVISION’s guiding light, the elusive TOM VERLAINE? Drawing on memories of exacting working methods, Froggy  e Gremlin and Television’s unfifi nished fourth studio album, collaborators and bandmates separate fact from friction. “He’s remained true to himself over all the years,” hears Rob Hughes, “He’s following his instincts

BUYER’S GUIDE

Your path through TOM VERLAINE’s solo work

“IT WAS CRAZY!”

Inside Verlaine’s illstarred sessions with Jeff Buckley

Amon Düül II

The cult German group’s path from trailblazing experimentation to early-’80s pop

THINGS BEHIND THE SUN

NICK DRAKE’s Pink Moon is 50 this month. To celebrate, Uncut has assembled friends, peers and acolytes – including Richard Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Mark Eitzel, Joan Shelley and Joe Boyd – to explore favourite songs from the visionary singer-songwriter’s starkly beautiful swansong. Which will you love the best..?

EYEWITNESS

Ashley Hutchings on ‘discovering’ Nick Drake

VOLK STAR

O N November 11, 1999, Volkswagen premiered a

Good Morning, Captain by Slint

An eerie coming-of-age allegory so intense that it caused the post-rock pioneers to split: “We had crises of belief systems or something…”

LEAVE IT OPEN

Donkeys and didgeridoos. Celtic ballads and ethno-pop. Harry Houdini and the Star Wars Cantina theme. Heady experimentation and creative freedom. Welcome to The Dreaming: KATE BUSH’s “she’s gone mad” album – and the record that ushered in her imperial phase. “‘Wuthering Heights’ gave Kate licence to do what she wanted,” one eyewitness tells Peter Watts. “With The Dreaming, she took it as far as she could possibly go.”

“IT’S AN EVOLVING PROCESS”

Kate on robots and live shows

“IN THE GARDEN WITH A JAPANESE LONGBOW…”

DAVE Lawson, Synclavier player on The Dreaming, had

“WE DID IT IN BITS”

Memories of the videos

“We made friendships that lasted 40 years”

Kate’s fans recall a signing session from September 1982

IDLES

Brixton Academy, London, January 19

THE SMILE

Magazine, London, January 29

FILMS

Star-crossed lovers in Paris, an Afghan outcast in limbo, desperate American antiheroes and more…

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

PARIS 13TH DISTRICT Directed by J acques Audiard

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WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY OPENS FEBRUARY 11

BOOKS

VENOM’S desire to be what singer Cronos called

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

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